From Exhibition to Catalog: Celebrating “Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China”

Friday, April 12 at 9am PST • 12 Noon EST • 5pm BST

Event held via zoom • Registration Link

Photography Network membership is required to attend.

Join us for a lively conversation on April 12 with curators Karina Corrigan and Stephanie Tung from the Peabody Essex Museum. This program will celebrate their recent exhibition catalog Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China, a 2023 PN Book Prize Awardee. The book presents a survey of photography in nineteenth-century China, combining rich and informative “potted histories” surrounding a range of objects in the PEM collection with longer essays that delve into critical issues in historical context. In the talk, the authors will provide an overview of the exhibition and dive into the process of translating an exhibition into book form.

Bios:

Stephanie Tung is the Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum. She leads the interpretation and presentation of the museum’s growing photo collection, which spans the 19th century through today. Her work explores legacies of colonialism, transnational art exchanges, global modernism, and notions of artistic labor.

Karina H. Corrigan serves as Peabody Essex Museum's Associate Director -Collections and The H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art. In her curatorial practice she oversees the largest, most comprehensive public collection of art made in China, Japan and South Asia for export to other cultures. In her role as Associate Director of Collections, Corrigan explores new ways to celebrate the museum’s rich and storied collection by spearheading new research; enhancing access through increased documentation, digitization and display; and providing guidance for acquisitions.